Package-tie.



D. COMFORT.

PACKAGE TIE. APPLICATION FILED 0OT.1B, 1909.

Patented July 1, 1913.

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. DAVID comronnor 'rrrron, GEORGIA, AssiGnon To comronr-nnmton rm comrnnr, or rrr'ron, GEORGIA, A conronerron or unners. l

; PACKAGE-TIE.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, DAVID CoMron'r, a citizen of the United States, and resident-of Tifton, in the county of Tift and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and use: ful Improvements in Package-Ties, of which the following is a specificatlon.

This invention relates to that class of package-tics in which a binderis provided with a lever-like locking member, by the manipulation of which the binder, when properly passed around thepackage, is brou an e cient tying action upon the package.

Such devices, in difi'erent;forms, are.illus-.

trated in Letters Patent of the United: States -Nos. 924,146 and 924,594, dated June-8,1909,

to which reference may be had. In the patented devices the locking member comprises a wireor sheet metal body provided at one end with a bowed head or bearing portion, at or adjacent to which one extremity of the binder is secured, and provided at the opposite end with a laterally-projecting notched portion. The head constitutes a cleat-like member about-which the free end of thebin'der, when properly passed around the package, can be wound or turned, and the locking member then be bodily swung to a reverse position upon the package in a manner to exert a tightening strain upon the binder; and the said notched-portion by its final engagement with the proximate stretch of the binder, when the locking member is thus inverted, affords an etficient means to secure the said member in locking relation with the binder and package.

The primary object of my present invention is to improve the construction and facilitate the use of package ties of the class mentioned, by providing the locking member thereof with a binder locking portion so located in respect to the head or bearing portion that when the binder is. properly passed around the package and the lever swung to locking-position, the free end of the binder is securely engaged and held by such portionl Another object of'my invention is so to form the notched binder-engagingiportion of the locking member as to obviate all liability ofsuch portion catching the cords of other devices, when not in use, as when the ht under tension in a manner to exert- Specineation oi Letters latent. Patentgd uly 1, 1913, Application filed October 18, eoe. Serial ivb. Masai.

ties are bunched together for packing and transportation. u

With these objects in view my invention comprises certain novel features of construction which w1ll be hereinafter particularly described and claimed. In the drawings-"Figure 1 is a plan, enla-r ed, of a package-tie embodying the bin e'r-lockmg feature of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a vie'w of the underside of the devi e; *Fig. 3' is an end view'thereof. Fig. 4 1s a perspective view illustrating the device as applied to: a package, the parts being shown in the 'o'sition they occupy immediately before t e locln'ng member is swung over to engage its notched end with the taut stretch of the'binder. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the tie as applied to the package and locked thereon. Fig. 6 is a plan. of

a modified form of the device.

The form of. package tie illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, is, excepting as hereinafter particularly "pointed out, similar in construction to that described in Patent No. $4,594, that is to say, the locking member 1s composed of a single pieceof sheet metal struck up to form the body 1; the arched or bowed head 2 at one end thereof; the laterally-extending notched toe 3 at the opposite end, and the aperture 6 adjacent the head to receive the knotted end of the cord or' hinder 7.

In accordance with my invention, the upper side of the locking member, in the space between the orifice and the adjacent end of the device, is provided with a frictional surface, which, in the present instance, comprises a series of longitudinally disposed ribs or teeth 8 into engagement with which the free end of the binder is forced by the strain or pressure exerted thereupon by the overlying tightened portion of the binder when the said memberis swung to locking position. I These ribs or teeth are preferably beveled or inclined in cross-section similarly to ratchet teeth, their angularity being opposed to the direction-of a releasing pull or strain on the engaged portion of the binder, so as to exert an eflicient biting and holding action on the latter.

In Figs. 4 and 5, the package tie just described is illustrated as applied to a package, the former showing the'parts in the position they are caused to occupy just before the locking member is swung to locking position, and the latter showing them when such m is forcibly inverted and its notched portion engaged with the proximate stretch of the bin It will be observed that the free end of the binder, instead of being turned or wound around the head, as described in the aforesaid patents, preparatory to turning the member to locking position, is simply drawn under the head, and that when the member is thereupon swun to locking position such end is forced into 0 ose engagement with the subjacent frictional surface as above indicated. If desired, the

free end ,Of the binder may for greater security be wound or turned about the head, but under ordinary conditions the locking action of the frictional surface upon the binder is sufiicient for all practical purposes.

In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the device in semblance of a shoe for use, say, as an ad- 'readilyproduced without departure Various other forms of the device ma be do... my invention.

Icla1m'-- In a' package tie, a lever-like locking member comprising a body provided with .an

elfd-bearmg head and having an aperture to receive one end of the hinder or cord, and a.binder-engagmg portion remote from the head, said head having a series of longitudinally-disposed ribs between said aperture and the adjacent end of the. head into engageinent with which the free end of the binder is forced by. the strain or pressure exerted thereupon by the overlying tightened portion of the binder when said member is swung to locking position.

Signed at Tifton in the county of Tift and State of Georgia this 8th day of Qctoher A. D. 1909.

DAVID COMFORT. 

